ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,660, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Object detection and classification using 2D RGB image generated by point cloud radar" was invented by Jessica Bartholdy Sanson (Munich), Kalin Hristov Kabakchiev (Munich) and Aravind Ramachandran (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar system comprises a plurality of receive antennas that receive a radar signal. One or more processors are configured to generate an n-dimensional point cloud comprising values for parameters of an object in an environment of the radar system, where the n-dimensional point cloud is generated based upon the...